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This summer’s edition of The Dickens Universe - a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, ...
One of those objects is a rare copy of David Copperfield that traveled to Antarctica on Captain Robert Falcon Scott ’s famous Terra Nova expedition in 1910. The novel entertained them during perilous ...
Keywords Great Expectations, Dickens, Miss Havisham, Estella, Magwitch, Pip, ethics, Kant, identity, tragedy, Victorian ...
In Charles Dickens: England's Most Captivating Storyteller (Candlewick Press), Catherine Wells-Cole compiles a scrapbook of Victorian-era documents, letters, book covers, ...
Early in the winter of 1841 it had been announced that Charles Dickens would shortly visit this country, and Mr. Alexander wrote to him at London, inviting him to sit for his picture on his arrival.
Charles Dickens would have chosen this London home at 48 Doughty Street for its central location in the thriving city. From here, he could easily walk to any of his publishers’ offices, ...
This Feb. 6, we celebrate Charles Dickens, the novelist and literary superstar of his day. He may well have been the first celebrity spokesman for a medical charity. The cause was London’s Great ...
Blake Montgomery in “Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again” at the Den Theatre. (Joe Mazza) This makes me wonder, why filter the story through Dickens at all?
LONDON — Handwritten letters by one of Britain’s most famous authors, Charles Dickens, will go on public display for the first time this week, giving a fresh insight into the Victorian writer ...
Charles Dickens, the beloved author of “A Christmas Carol,” thought Syracuse was a dump. But even so, somehow, he managed to make a lifelong fan of one young Syracuse boy. “I am here,” he ...
Charles Dickens - the Victorian writer who conjured such classic characters as Pip, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby and Scrooge - is 200 years old this year. His birthday is being celebrated all ...